The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Gaming in IT jobs advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Social Gaming over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all terms in our Miscellaneous category for the City of London region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Social Gaming
Rank 285 313 328
Rank change year-on-year
+28 +15
Permanent jobs citing Social Gaming 36 10 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 0.309% 0.077% 0.019%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.742% 0.195% 0.045%
Number of salaries quoted 35 10 2
Average salary £50,000 £52,500 £36,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
-4.76% +42.85%
90% offered a salary of more than £45,200 £42,500 £26,150
10% offered a salary of more than £61,200 £62,750 £47,350
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £33,750 £30,000
% change year-on-year
+11.11% +12.50%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
City of London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
4854 5129 6740
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 41.61% 39.26% 43.69%
Number of salaries quoted 4179 4696 6115
Average salary £57,500 £57,500 £65,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -11.53%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £34,500 £35,000
10% offered a salary of more than £85,000 £90,000 £82,500
UK excluding London average salary £39,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-2.50% +6.66%
Social Gaming
London

Social Gaming
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Social Gaming across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

City of London Social Gaming Jobs Demand Trend

Social Gaming
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Social Gaming across the City of London region.

City of London Social Gaming Salary Trend

Social Gaming
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Social Gaming across the City of London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

City of London Social Gaming Salary Histogram

Social Gaming
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the City of London region citing Social Gaming also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited Social Gaming.

1 61 (100.00%) Games
2 30 (49.18%) Apple iOS
3 29 (47.54%) HTTP
4 22 (36.07%) Android
5 20 (32.79%) Facebook
6 19 (31.15%) C++
7 18 (29.51%) Java
8 15 (24.59%) Online Games
8 15 (24.59%) Google
8 15 (24.59%) Game Development
9 14 (22.95%) Objective-C
10 13 (21.31%) OpenGL
10 13 (21.31%) OO
10 13 (21.31%) Social Network
11 12 (19.67%) JavaScript
12 11 (18.03%) Google Maps API
12 11 (18.03%) Analytics
13 10 (16.39%) iOS SDK
13 10 (16.39%) Twitter
13 10 (16.39%) HTML5
13 10 (16.39%) HTML
13 10 (16.39%) OOP
14 9 (14.75%) CSS
14 9 (14.75%) Ajax
14 9 (14.75%) Augmented Reality
15 8 (13.11%) CSS3
15 8 (13.11%) Degree
15 8 (13.11%) Linux
16 7 (11.48%) JSON
16 7 (11.48%) Multithreading

Social Gaming
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the City of London region citing Social Gaming also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited Social Gaming. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 13 (21.31%) OpenGL
2 11 (18.03%) Google Maps API
3 10 (16.39%) iOS SDK
3 10 (16.39%) HTML5
3 10 (16.39%) HTML
4 9 (14.75%) CSS
4 9 (14.75%) Ajax
5 8 (13.11%) CSS3
6 7 (11.48%) JSON
7 6 (9.836%) REST
7 6 (9.836%) Flash
8 5 (8.197%) OpenGL ES
9 4 (6.557%) Cocoa Touch
9 4 (6.557%) Cocoa
10 3 (4.918%) jQuery
10 3 (4.918%) cocos2d
11 2 (3.279%) Apache Flex
11 2 (3.279%) DOM
12 1 (1.639%) Hibernate
12 1 (1.639%) JSP
Application Platforms
1 4 (6.557%) Tomcat
2 3 (4.918%) Apache
2 3 (4.918%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (1.639%) Amazon AWS
Communications & Networking
1 29 (47.54%) HTTP
2 6 (9.836%) DNS
3 3 (4.918%) SMTP
3 3 (4.918%) Ethernet
3 3 (4.918%) TCP/IP
3 3 (4.918%) SSL
4 1 (1.639%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.639%) MySQL
1 1 (1.639%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 5 (8.197%) Eclipse
1 5 (8.197%) Subversion
2 4 (6.557%) Git (software)
2 4 (6.557%) Cucumber
2 4 (6.557%) Selenium
3 2 (3.279%) Maven
4 1 (1.639%) Visual Studio
4 1 (1.639%) QuickTest Pro
4 1 (1.639%) FitNesse
4 1 (1.639%) PhoneGap
General
1 61 (100.00%) Games
2 3 (4.918%) Retail
3 2 (3.279%) Marketing
3 2 (3.279%) Telecoms
4 1 (1.639%) Legal
4 1 (1.639%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 43 (70.49%) Developer
2 14 (22.95%) iOS Developer
3 10 (16.39%) Games Developer
4 8 (13.11%) C++ Developer
5 7 (11.48%) Lead Developer
5 7 (11.48%) C++ Games Developer
6 6 (9.836%) Programmer
7 5 (8.197%) Android Developer
8 4 (6.557%) Web Developer
9 3 (4.918%) Administrator
9 3 (4.918%) Junior
9 3 (4.918%) Systems Administrator
9 3 (4.918%) Senior Developer
9 3 (4.918%) Systems Manager
9 3 (4.918%) Linux Administrator
9 3 (4.918%) Linux Systems Administrator
9 3 (4.918%) Junior Programmer
9 3 (4.918%) Web Manager
9 3 (4.918%) Senior Programmer
9 3 (4.918%) Front-End Developer
Miscellaneous
1 15 (24.59%) Online Games
2 13 (21.31%) Social Network
3 9 (14.75%) Augmented Reality
4 6 (9.836%) Mobile Games
5 5 (8.197%) iPhone
6 4 (6.557%) iPad
7 3 (4.918%) Blackberry
7 3 (4.918%) Computer Science
7 3 (4.918%) Mobile App
8 2 (3.279%) Open Source
8 2 (3.279%) Mathematics
8 2 (3.279%) Psychology
8 2 (3.279%) Blog
9 1 (1.639%) E-Learning
9 1 (1.639%) SCORM
9 1 (1.639%) Credit Risk
9 1 (1.639%) Flash Games
9 1 (1.639%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (1.639%) Online Gambling
Operating Systems
1 30 (49.18%) Apple iOS
2 22 (36.07%) Android
3 8 (13.11%) Linux
4 3 (4.918%) CentOS
4 3 (4.918%) Mac OS X Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (24.59%) Game Development
2 13 (21.31%) OO
3 11 (18.03%) Analytics
4 10 (16.39%) OOP
5 7 (11.48%) Multithreading
6 6 (9.836%) Agile Software Development
6 6 (9.836%) Disaster Recovery
6 6 (9.836%) Scrum
7 5 (8.197%) E-Commerce
8 4 (6.557%) TDD
8 4 (6.557%) MVC
9 3 (4.918%) Business Continuity
9 3 (4.918%) Automated Testing
10 2 (3.279%) Mobile Application Development
10 2 (3.279%) Dependency Injection
10 2 (3.279%) BDD
10 2 (3.279%) Memory Management
10 2 (3.279%) Unit Testing
10 2 (3.279%) Continuous Integration
11 1 (1.639%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 19 (31.15%) C++
2 18 (29.51%) Java
3 14 (22.95%) Objective-C
4 12 (19.67%) JavaScript
5 5 (8.197%) SQL
5 5 (8.197%) ActionScript
6 4 (6.557%) C
7 3 (4.918%) C#
7 3 (4.918%) Perl
7 3 (4.918%) Python
7 3 (4.918%) Ruby
7 3 (4.918%) Lua
7 3 (4.918%) Bash shell
8 1 (1.639%) MAXScript
8 1 (1.639%) F#
8 1 (1.639%) ActionScript 3.0
8 1 (1.639%) Scala
Qualifications
1 8 (13.11%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.918%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (4.918%) Nagios
1 3 (4.918%) Puppet
Vendors
1 20 (32.79%) Facebook
2 15 (24.59%) Google
3 10 (16.39%) Twitter
4 4 (6.557%) Apple
5 3 (4.918%) Red Hat
5 3 (4.918%) Cisco
5 3 (4.918%) Juniper
5 3 (4.918%) Brocade
6 2 (3.279%) Sony
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